Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born 26 May 1966 in London) is an English actress whose career spans more than four decades. She earned Oscar nominations for The Wings of the Dove (1997) and The King's Speech (2010), won a BAFTA for the latter, and is widely recognised for playing Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series and Princess Margaret in Netflix's The Crown. Her long creative partnership with director Tim Burton produced some of her most distinctive work.
Bonham Carter returns as Eudoria Holmes in the third installment of Enola Holmes, which is released on Netflix on July 1, 2026.
In February 2026, she began filming The Housekeeper directed by Richard Eyre alongside Anthony Hopkins and Caitríona Balfe in Cornwall.
The romantic film Four Letters of Love, in which she stars alongside Pierce Brosnan, was added to Netflix's catalog in the USA on February 5, 2026.
The film Four Letters of Love had a British-Irish cinema premiere on July 18, 2025, and received mixed reviews.
The drama One Life with Anthony Hopkins, in which Bonham Carter plays a supporting role, premiered in the Czech Republic on February 1, 2024.
